I can read it very well, but the Voya nui version trips me up sometimes. I Can also write it, and I do locker mail in it. (make tiny letters and stuff them into your friend's locker vent, and they wright back, our entire student body does it. and I started it all. )

the main reason I tried was the newspapers in MNOG II. I hated those things. XD

Edited by Loganto The Bo-Matoran, Jan 29 2014 - 12:23 PM.

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Everything dies, even if you liked it. Stop crying. It's life. Nothing dies if you remember it. Never forget.

Oddly I never did bother to memorize most of it, which is weird because I'm into fictional letters and invent my own huge systems of them that I somehow manage to remember just fine. I did always remember the symbol for P, though, which I used in the symbol for my original fanfic series, the Paracosmos. For some reason though every time I figure out what some of them are, it always slips away again. It's weird.

Maybe it's because I enjoy it being more of a challenge, so I keep re-forgetting it so I can keep re-learning it.

I used to know it, but I'm... very rusty.
Really, though, does anyone actually read and write in Matoran? Why would you do that? XD

I can read it very well, but the Voya nui version trips me up sometimes. I Can also write it, and I do locker mail in it. (make tiny letters and stuff them into your friend's locker vent, and they wright back, our entire student body does it. and I started it all. )

... you taught your whole school to write in Matoran?

Edited by Chro, Jan 29 2014 - 02:01 PM.

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I have not tapped into such knowledge for quite some time. The last time I wrote in matoran was back in college occasionally while taking notes. I had a few issues with letters I rarely used like q and j.

Yeah I memorized it a long time ago (except letters that don't have English counterparts). I do struggle with drawing consistent circles though. I mostly just use it to label drawings and such but I've always wanted to re-write all the books in matoran.

... it's been ages since I've last been able to fluently read stuff in matoran. These days, reading still works, kind of, if you give me a lot of time, but writing not so much. I usually just consult that handy image from the old Bionicle website if unsure.

I used to know it, but I'm... very rusty.
Really, though, does anyone actually read and write in Matoran? Why would you do that? XD

I can read it very well, but the Voya nui version trips me up sometimes. I Can also write it, and I do locker mail in it. (make tiny letters and stuff them into your friend's locker vent, and they wright back, our entire student body does it. and I started it all. )

... you taught your whole school to write in Matoran?

Oh, no, we just send them in English, matoran is limited to friends only for me.

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Everything dies, even if you liked it. Stop crying. It's life. Nothing dies if you remember it. Never forget.

I can read and write it fluently as far as I know. "As far as I know" because I haven't had any reason to do either in a while, but I'm pretty sure I know what everything is and how to write every letter. I mean, probably.

I can read it just fine. The letters are all based on the Latin alphabet, so once you've got a basic understanding of which glyphs correspond to which letters it's easy to remember and decode.

I would probably opt to have a translation page handy when writing with it, however, since I might be a little rusty and mix up some letters—an easily detectable problem when reading a grammatically correct message, but not as easily caught if I'm writing the message myself.

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I knew the Matoran alphabet pretty well and probably still do, but to be fair, it isn't entirely difficult to learn or retain. After all, all of the letters are designed to closely resemble the corresponding letters in the Latin alphabet. Obviously some get considerably distorted through simplification, but the basis is still reasonably evident and there are only a few letters that have ever caused me much confusion.

In contrast, I don't know if I've ever been able to decipher Matoran numbers from memory.

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A while back, Matoran was my default code--perfect for when I wanted to write something that I could read fairly easily, but that no one outside my family would have a clue about. Haven't really had cause to use it for some time, but I'm fairly confident I still could if the mood were to strike me.

I can't automatically remember which letters are which, but I can read and write both with accuracy. The biggest problems for me are D, G, and Y. I know the number system pretty well.

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future is an empty book. You must find your own destiny, my brave adventurer."
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I can read and write Matoran perfectly well, but writing takes a lot of time since you need to draw the circles...

That's true. I usually draw all the circles first, then go back and add the inner details.

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"You are an absolute in these uncertain times. Your past is forgotten, and your
future is an empty book. You must find your own destiny, my brave adventurer."
-- Turaga Nokama
​Click here to visit my library!

I usually write mine in a very handwritingish way, the circles being very imperfect and the lines sometimes to long for the circle, kind of like some of the writings in MNOGII. It gives it somewhat of a more human feeling.

Someone needs to make a notebook just full of circles instead of lines, so that we can write it quickly.

Here you go: https://docs.google....dit?usp=sharing. I'll make versions with more pages if you guys want, but you can just print out however many you want of the three circle sizes I included. Great idea, Kopeke!

Maybe even the alternating up/down triangles for Xia. (I think that was later decanonized, but fans can ignore that, heh.)

Plus, put the alphabet key at the start, IMO.

Note: There is a problem with that pre-circled page thing, though -- a circle with nothing in it is the letter O even in Matoran, not a space. Spaces would just be spaces. I guess you should still trace over the circles with actual ink/pencil to do it properly. (Might wanna mention that suggestion at the start too.)

Does anyone still use the Matoran-style hyphen from MNOG? For the unfamiliar, it looked like a minus sigh with a small circle underneath it. Interestingly, it was inconsistently used with village names. The Onu-Wahi tunnels always use them, but Po-Wahi (including the rock) doesn't (they say thinks like, "POKORO"). The Ga-Koro sign doesn't have a hyphen, but does have a space ("GA KORO"). I always liked the BIONICLE hyphen.

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"You are an absolute in these uncertain times. Your past is forgotten, and your
future is an empty book. You must find your own destiny, my brave adventurer."
-- Turaga Nokama
​Click here to visit my library!

Maybe even the alternating up/down triangles for Xia. (I think that was later decanonized, but fans can ignore that, heh.)

Plus, put the alphabet key at the start, IMO.

Note: There is a problem with that pre-circled page thing, though -- a circle with nothing in it is the letter O even in Matoran, not a space. Spaces would just be spaces. I guess you should still trace over the circles with actual ink/pencil to do it properly. (Might wanna mention that suggestion at the start too.)

Yeah, did anyone else notice that they changed the way to write K? It looked like this, and then it looked like this

P.S. I think that second one is SO AWESOME, I gotta remember to print it out

Maybe even the alternating up/down triangles for Xia. (I think that was later decanonized, but fans can ignore that, heh.)

Plus, put the alphabet key at the start, IMO.

Note: There is a problem with that pre-circled page thing, though -- a circle with nothing in it is the letter O even in Matoran, not a space. Spaces would just be spaces. I guess you should still trace over the circles with actual ink/pencil to do it properly. (Might wanna mention that suggestion at the start too.)

I thought spaces were sometimes dots between words or something. In any case, yes, a pre-circled notebook has that problem.